A lot of people equate leadership to having managerial or supervisory responsibilities. A leader and manager are very different. A manager copes with complexity and brings order and predictability to a situation, whereas a leader shows how to cope with rapid changes. This is not to say that a good manager cannot be a good…

One concern that Indian IT applicants have is that with 40,000+ Indians applying to B-schools, they (applicants) will have a hard time distinguishing their profile and projecting their worthiness to top MBA programs. They could not be more wrong. It’s true that most Indian B-school applicants have an engineering degree, an excellent GPA, a decent…

(Courtesy wsj)Oh, that the business world were more like that. Now, some graduate schools are aiming for just such a goal— at least in the applications process for their M.B.A. programs. [caption id="attachment_734" align="alignleft" width="150"] Harvard Business School this year began directing current applicants to "Answer a question you wish we'd asked."[/caption] Columbia Business School…